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PROGRAMSWe find, fund and partner with the most effective poverty fighting programs in the city. When they work, we find ways to bring their successes to scale. When they falter, we bring in experts to fix the problem. We make grant decisions to maximize impact, much like a financial manager chooses investments to maximize profit.

IN MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST EFFECTIVEPOVERTY-FIGHTING PROGRAMS IN NYC

In 2013, Robin Hood invested $132 million in over 200 of the best poverty-fighting programs in New York City. In addition, we made more than $70.5 million in grants to hundreds of organizations throughout the tri-state area helping victims of Hurricane Sandy rebuild and recover. While there is great diversity among these programs, they all have one thing in common: they work.

Provides medical, mental health and case management services for H.I.V.-positive individuals who have been admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital and are at high-risk of dropping out of medical care.

Provides supportive housing, community development and social services to youth and families in Bedford-Stuyvesant and runs a full-service Single Stop site. It is the oldest community development corporation in the United States.

Partners with local community courts to reduce recidivism of formerly incarcerated teenagers; help school dropouts get their G.E.D.; and help at-risk youth avoid committing crimes through job placement and other services.

Program for Medical Interpreting Services (Promise) trains underemployed immigrants and other bilingual individuals to serve as interpreters for patients who cannot communicate reliably with healthcare providers.

One of the largest social service agencies serving Chinese immigrants in New York City. Through its multiple sites, the agency provides a range of services including daycare, housing home attendant care, ESL classes and job placement and training.

This grant will fund staffing for a full-time, licensed mental health professional to provide in-office and home visits for 100-150 individuals affected by Hurricane Sandy. The grant will also provide $1,000 gift cards to 50 low-income Suffolk County residents to help replace lost and damaged furniture

In partnership with Columbia University, Robin Hood is designing a superior poverty standard that takes into account not only income (as does the official federal standard) but also material deprivations (like hunger, health care and housing); the project will also conduct frequent Internet-based surveys of a fixed panel of over 1,000 N.Y.C. households to paint a picture of N.Y.C. poverty of now nearly unimaginable detail.

Reaches out to and houses homeless individuals in multiple temporary and permanent residences throughout New York City; provides the formerly homeless with a wide array of supportive services to avoid relapse into homelessness.

Implements a pilot program to improve college retention and graduation rates among 300 at-risk students, using intensive remediation before matriculation and mentoring and counseling for a year after matriculation.

Provides intensive literacy tutoring--for every student, an hour a day, five days a week for three years--to students at 19 middle schools and conducts a randomized controlled trial of the tutoring program.

Fosters healthy child development through Early Head Start by providing low-income mothers and their infants and toddlers center-based and home-based services, including work opportunities for parents.

Founded in 1977, Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. (FREE) is one of Long Island's largest and longest-established not-for-profit providers of services for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, behavioral health needs or traumatic brain injury. Distributed in modest grants, this allocation will allow approximately 300 families to cover pressing expenses, including those for housing and home repairs, furniture, appliances, basic supplies and deposits for temporary rental apartments.

Implements a program of one-on-one counseling to help low-income, disadvantaged teens and young adults enter and stay in college; runs a Single Stop site; and manages the citywide initiative to swiftly place adults living on the streets in Manhattan into permanent housing.

Runs foster-care programs, transfer high schools programs, adolescent residences for youth aging out of subsidized foster care, supervised independent living residences and two Single Stop sites, one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn.

Trains young adults for "green" jobs--positions primarily focused on reducing energy consumption and conserving natural resources. The program also prepares young adults to enter and succeed in college.

Founded in 1986 by Governor Andrew Cuomo and recognized by the United States Congress as a national model, HELP U.S.A. is one of the country's largest builders and operators of service-enriched transitional and low-income permanent housing. HELP has 19 residential communities in the New York metropolitan area, and has recently expanded in Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Buffalo, Newark and Houston.

Develops innovative ways to provide primary health services to medically underserved populations based on the family practice model of care through a network of federally qualified, freestanding community health centers. In addition to developing and operating multi-disciplinary health facilities, the Institute trains health professionals and other health care workers.

Operates a network of New York City charter schools including three elementary, four middle and one high school. KIPP NYC eighth graders have earned bachelors' degrees at over three times the national rate for low-income students.

Long Beach Reach is providing outreach and education and brief crisis counseling to residents in communities hard hit by the storm. This grant will fund additional social workers who will assist hundreds of local residents facing issues related to depression and substance abuse.

This initiative, a partnership between the City's Workforce1 system and Robin Hood grantee Madison Strategies, reaches out to veterans to take advantage of a wide range of employment services at the city's Workforce1 sites.

Provides a wide spectrum of social services for low-income Jewish New Yorkers, including affordable housing, job training programs, crisis-intervention counseling, food pantries and home care for the elderly, and runs a full-service Single Stop site.

Works closely with entrepreneurial, innovative nonprofits around the country. In 2010, Robin Hood joined a national partnership led by New Profit to win a federal SIF award of $50 million over five years to aid unemployed, out-of-school youth. [Robin Hood funds New York City activities only.]

The Foundling's extensive network of community based services provides havens for children whose safety is at risk, loving foster and group facilities to protect children and support for families to strengthen them.

Oversees 10,000-family demonstration project by which library: (1) lends without charge devices by which the borrower can access the Internet in their home; and (2) evaluates how families use the device.

Trains low-skilled individuals for jobs in "green collar" construction, providing a 17-week program that leads to certification, pre-apprenticeship jobs and union membership.

NYC LMIS

LMIS collects labor-market data from a wide range of sources, analyzes the data and reports implications to nonprofits and city agencies involved with job training.

NYU School of Medicine - Children's Trauma Institute

New York University (N.Y.U.) School of Medicine sponsors the Children's Trauma Institute, which aims to reduce the risk of child maltreatment through intensive identification and subsequent treatment of mothers with trauma-related disorders.

The Puerto Rican Association for Human Development, Inc. (P.R.A.H.D.) is located in the City of Perth Amboy and services the entirety of Middlesex and Union Counties. The P.R.A.H.D. has been an anchor organization in both counties, and especially the City of Perth Amboy, providing social services for more than 17,000 clients annually.

Provides food, clothing and social services for needy residents, including immigrants, of Staten Island; runs a full-service Single Stop site specializing in food stamp and health insurance enrollments.

In partnership with Columbia University Medical Center and Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, provides sophisticated neuropsychological evaluations of low-income children with learning difficulties.

Runs a last-chance high school for failing students and former dropouts and helps families in crisis by running two parenting education programs (Nurse Family Partnership and Parent-Child Home Program) and a Single Stop site.

Operates a network of nine charter schools in the city, each growing to serve students in grades kindergarten through eight, and plans to add six more by 2013. Eventually, the network will grow to 40 schools.

Provides a continuum of care, including youth and family services, services for older adults, a food and food stamps access program, citizenship classes and workforce activities focused on home health aide training.

In partnership with EdLabs and the city education department, provides intensive literacy tutoring--for every student, an hour a day, five days a week for three years--to students at 19 middle schools.

The River Fund serves emergency food to 135,000 residents of Queens from its food pantry and mobile food-distribution center and also provides social services, onsite enrollment for food stamps, referrals to financial counseling, tax preparers and clothing,.

Offers school-based counseling to children and their families through a network of mental-health professionals working with teachers and administrators to aid individual students and help improve school-wide culture and results.

Operates a network of 21 charter schools in Brooklyn, providing nearly 6,000 disadvantaged students with academically rigorous instruction that: (1) closes the achievement gap between them and middle-income families; and (2) prepares them to graduate from college.

Develops and runs arts-integrated education programs including Fresh Prep, an innovative curriculum using rhyme and music that significantly increases the pass rate of students who have previously failed the New York State Global History and U.S. History Regents exams.

Focuses on providing supports to families victimized by 9/11 and finding ways to remember those who were lost. The organization was founded by Mary Fetchet, a trained therapist, who lost her son on 9/11.

Education is the best poverty-prevention method out there. Robin Hood supports superior schools—public, private and parochial—in the city’s poorest neighborhoods. These schools emphasize rigorous academics, dynamic leadership and utilize an extended-day and extended-year model. We also support programs that prevent students from falling behind, reinvigorate teaching and provide students with needed mental and social services.

Provides intensive literacy tutoring--for every student, an hour a day, five days a week for three years--to students at 19 middle schools and conducts a randomized controlled trial of the tutoring program.

Runs foster-care programs, transfer high schools programs, adolescent residences for youth aging out of subsidized foster care, supervised independent living residences and two Single Stop sites, one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn.

Operates a network of New York City charter schools including three elementary, four middle and one high school. KIPP NYC eighth graders have earned bachelors' degrees at over three times the national rate for low-income students.

Oversees 10,000-family demonstration project by which library: (1) lends without charge devices by which the borrower can access the Internet in their home; and (2) evaluates how families use the device.

In partnership with Columbia University Medical Center and Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, provides sophisticated neuropsychological evaluations of low-income children with learning difficulties.

Runs a last-chance high school for failing students and former dropouts and helps families in crisis by running two parenting education programs (Nurse Family Partnership and Parent-Child Home Program) and a Single Stop site.

Operates a network of nine charter schools in the city, each growing to serve students in grades kindergarten through eight, and plans to add six more by 2013. Eventually, the network will grow to 40 schools.

In partnership with EdLabs and the city education department, provides intensive literacy tutoring--for every student, an hour a day, five days a week for three years--to students at 19 middle schools.

Offers school-based counseling to children and their families through a network of mental-health professionals working with teachers and administrators to aid individual students and help improve school-wide culture and results.

Operates a network of 21 charter schools in Brooklyn, providing nearly 6,000 disadvantaged students with academically rigorous instruction that: (1) closes the achievement gap between them and middle-income families; and (2) prepares them to graduate from college.

Develops and runs arts-integrated education programs including Fresh Prep, an innovative curriculum using rhyme and music that significantly increases the pass rate of students who have previously failed the New York State Global History and U.S. History Regents exams.

Runs a public high school which focuses on issues of law and social justice including an individualized college-advising program that supports each student.

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JoBS & ECONOMIC SECURITY

Robin Hood's job programs have helped thousands of people get jobs, despite such barriers to employment as histories of substance abuse, incarceration and homelessness. We also support organizations that create economic security for low-income individuals by providing legal assistance and help securing public entitlements, as well as financial and legal counseling, free banking services, and loans and technical guidance in starting a business.

Provides supportive housing, community development and social services to youth and families in Bedford-Stuyvesant and runs a full-service Single Stop site. It is the oldest community development corporation in the United States.

Partners with local community courts to reduce recidivism of formerly incarcerated teenagers; help school dropouts get their G.E.D.; and help at-risk youth avoid committing crimes through job placement and other services.

Program for Medical Interpreting Services (Promise) trains underemployed immigrants and other bilingual individuals to serve as interpreters for patients who cannot communicate reliably with healthcare providers.

One of the largest social service agencies serving Chinese immigrants in New York City. Through its multiple sites, the agency provides a range of services including daycare, housing home attendant care, ESL classes and job placement and training.

Implements a program of one-on-one counseling to help low-income, disadvantaged teens and young adults enter and stay in college; runs a Single Stop site; and manages the citywide initiative to swiftly place adults living on the streets in Manhattan into permanent housing.

Runs foster-care programs, transfer high schools programs, adolescent residences for youth aging out of subsidized foster care, supervised independent living residences and two Single Stop sites, one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn.

Trains young adults for "green" jobs--positions primarily focused on reducing energy consumption and conserving natural resources. The program also prepares young adults to enter and succeed in college.

Develops innovative ways to provide primary health services to medically underserved populations based on the family practice model of care through a network of federally qualified, freestanding community health centers. In addition to developing and operating multi-disciplinary health facilities, the Institute trains health professionals and other health care workers.

Provides a wide spectrum of social services for low-income Jewish New Yorkers, including affordable housing, job training programs, crisis-intervention counseling, food pantries and home care for the elderly, and runs a full-service Single Stop site.

Oversees 10,000-family demonstration project by which library: (1) lends without charge devices by which the borrower can access the Internet in their home; and (2) evaluates how families use the device.

Provides food, clothing and social services for needy residents, including immigrants, of Staten Island; runs a full-service Single Stop site specializing in food stamp and health insurance enrollments.

Runs a last-chance high school for failing students and former dropouts and helps families in crisis by running two parenting education programs (Nurse Family Partnership and Parent-Child Home Program) and a Single Stop site.

Provides a continuum of care, including youth and family services, services for older adults, a food and food stamps access program, citizenship classes and workforce activities focused on home health aide training.

The River Fund serves emergency food to 135,000 residents of Queens from its food pantry and mobile food-distribution center and also provides social services, onsite enrollment for food stamps, referrals to financial counseling, tax preparers and clothing,.

Offers a 12-month training program in technology for economically disadvantaged young adults geared toward employment in entry-level information-technology positions and enrollment in college.

EARLY CHILDHOODAND YOUTH

Our early childhood programs attack the toll that poverty exacts at the earliest, most crucial stage of life. These programs have remarkable records of success among the thousands of children they serve, reversing speech and language delays and ensuring that children are better prepared to learn in kindergarten and beyond.

Our work with young adults tackles the plight of disadvantaged youth who need a second chance to improve their educations and find a path to productive adulthood. We invest in a network of opportunities in the community that help disadvantaged young people get into college and complete their education, or, alternatively, show them how to avoid risks and find a path to obtaining a meaningful job.

Partners with local community courts to reduce recidivism of formerly incarcerated teenagers; help school dropouts get their G.E.D.; and help at-risk youth avoid committing crimes through job placement and other services.

Implements a pilot program to improve college retention and graduation rates among 300 at-risk students, using intensive remediation before matriculation and mentoring and counseling for a year after matriculation.

Fosters healthy child development through Early Head Start by providing low-income mothers and their infants and toddlers center-based and home-based services, including work opportunities for parents.

Implements a program of one-on-one counseling to help low-income, disadvantaged teens and young adults enter and stay in college; runs a Single Stop site; and manages the citywide initiative to swiftly place adults living on the streets in Manhattan into permanent housing.

Runs foster-care programs, transfer high schools programs, adolescent residences for youth aging out of subsidized foster care, supervised independent living residences and two Single Stop sites, one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn.

Works closely with entrepreneurial, innovative nonprofits around the country. In 2010, Robin Hood joined a national partnership led by New Profit to win a federal SIF award of $50 million over five years to aid unemployed, out-of-school youth. [Robin Hood funds New York City activities only.]

The Foundling's extensive network of community based services provides havens for children whose safety is at risk, loving foster and group facilities to protect children and support for families to strengthen them.

Provides innovative psycho-educational services to children with emotional problems or development delays.

NYU School of Medicine - Children's Trauma Institute

New York University (N.Y.U.) School of Medicine sponsors the Children's Trauma Institute, which aims to reduce the risk of child maltreatment through intensive identification and subsequent treatment of mothers with trauma-related disorders.

Runs a last-chance high school for failing students and former dropouts and helps families in crisis by running two parenting education programs (Nurse Family Partnership and Parent-Child Home Program) and a Single Stop site.

Implements the Nurse Family Partnership, a parenting-education program for low-income, first-time mothers in the South Bronx.

SURVIVAL

Survival is a matter of housing, health, hunger and economic security.We attack the immediate problems of day-to-day survival by providing desperately needed food, shelter and health care. But a bowl of soup, a temporary bed, or one trip to the doctor isn’t enough. Our survival programs are designed to address immediate needs while giving people the ongoing support services and counseling they need to move towards a job and a home, improved health, self-reliance and economic security.

Provides medical, mental health and case management services for H.I.V.-positive individuals who have been admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital and are at high-risk of dropping out of medical care.

In partnership with Columbia University, Robin Hood is designing a superior poverty standard that takes into account not only income (as does the official federal standard) but also material deprivations (like hunger, health care and housing); the project will also conduct frequent Internet-based surveys of a fixed panel of over 1,000 N.Y.C. households to paint a picture of N.Y.C. poverty of now nearly unimaginable detail.

Reaches out to and houses homeless individuals in multiple temporary and permanent residences throughout New York City; provides the formerly homeless with a wide array of supportive services to avoid relapse into homelessness.

Implements a program of one-on-one counseling to help low-income, disadvantaged teens and young adults enter and stay in college; runs a Single Stop site; and manages the citywide initiative to swiftly place adults living on the streets in Manhattan into permanent housing.

Founded in 1986 by Governor Andrew Cuomo and recognized by the United States Congress as a national model, HELP U.S.A. is one of the country's largest builders and operators of service-enriched transitional and low-income permanent housing. HELP has 19 residential communities in the New York metropolitan area, and has recently expanded in Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Buffalo, Newark and Houston.

Develops innovative ways to provide primary health services to medically underserved populations based on the family practice model of care through a network of federally qualified, freestanding community health centers. In addition to developing and operating multi-disciplinary health facilities, the Institute trains health professionals and other health care workers.

This initiative, a partnership between the City's Workforce1 system and Robin Hood grantee Madison Strategies, reaches out to veterans to take advantage of a wide range of employment services at the city's Workforce1 sites.

Provides food, clothing and social services for needy residents, including immigrants, of Staten Island; runs a full-service Single Stop site specializing in food stamp and health insurance enrollments.

The River Fund serves emergency food to 135,000 residents of Queens from its food pantry and mobile food-distribution center and also provides social services, onsite enrollment for food stamps, referrals to financial counseling, tax preparers and clothing,.